This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...of hardness which is really surprising, and feel as though I was pressing upon a board. 7. The muscles of the shoulders are also harder than they ought to be, but nothing in comparison to the hardness of the gluteal. 8. The mare is affected with restlessness; she presents a peculiar wild look, stares a good deal, and bites keenly at the wood-work of her stall, a practice to which she is not in the least given. Treatment.--To have Belladonna ten drops of the first dilution in two ounces of water, then to be wisped down, if possible, until she is perfectly dry. Eleven o'clock (two hours afterwards).--The mare is better. The man could not wisp her dry, but he had covered her with a woollen rug, and she soon afterwards became so; the skin is now completely dry; the wild appearance which I spoke of is better, but the gluteal muscles still retain their rigid hardness. At twelve o'clock the mare to have Belladonna, ten drops of the third dilution in two ounces of water, and at five o'clock, P. M., to have Belladonna, five drops of the first dilution in two ounces of water. Seven o'clock, P. M.--Improved in every respect. She moves much better; the gluteal muscles have softened considerably, especially those of the right hind quarter; the muscles of the shoulders have resumed their normal state, or nearly so; she has eat two bran mashes and drunk about two gallons of chilled water; she has also dunged twice, and urinated freely two or three times. At nine o'clock to have a bran mash, containing about one quart of boiled oats, and at ten o'clock to have Belladonna, ten drops of the third dilution in two ounces of water, and then left for the night, with the understanding that a watchman who is kept upon the premises occasionally looks at her. 28th, nine o'clock, A. ...
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